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Cast Your Bread Upon the Water

Steven Shelley

Steven Shelley

New Hope Revival Ministries

July 30, 2002 · 3 min read

All of the sudden a vision broke before my eyes. And I don’t often see myself in the vision. But I was standing on the sea, standing on the beach, next to the sea and I had just one little loaf of bread in my hand and I was feeding that bread to the sea.

You know what the Bible said. Just breaking off little pieces of that bread. I saw it so real, so plain. Just breaking off little pieces of bread. And if I thought it was only for me, I wouldn’t even tell it. But I believe it’s for everyone of you that’ll claim it. And I was standing there, watching the waves carry the bread out. And I said, “Lord, that’s only half of what Your Word said.”

In this vision, I just looked right up, “Lord, this is only half of what Your Word said.” And all of the sudden I began to look out on the water. And I saw huge loaves, big loaves, this big and longer, floating back on the water. Not one, but many, a multitude of loaves.

And the Lord spoke to my heart and He said, “If you’ll just keep casting your bread on the water, not many days hence, it will return to you.” Hallelujah. “And it won’t just return in little pieces.” Oh hallelujah. And just before the vision left, I stooped down and picked up one of those loaves and it should’ve been soggy. It should have been full of water and soggy. But it was warm, like it had just come from the oven.

Cast your bread upon the water and not many days hence it will return to you, is the promise of the Lord. So I just want to encourage you. Keep casting your bread upon the water. Keep sowing into the work of God with your finances, with your life, with your dedication, with everything that’s within you. With your praise, with your worship, with your devotion, whatever you have to sow. For the Bible teaches us that whatever we sow into the heavens, God is going to sow it back down to us on the earth.

It’s a fixed law. Whatever goes up, has to come down. And the Bible teaches us in the book of Psalms that when we sow our praise into the heavenlies, the blessings of the Lord fall upon us like rain. So just let me encourage you tonight. Keep sowing. Keep casting bread. That little bitty loaf that I was pulling from was pretty small. And that may be all you feel like you have tonight is a little bitty loaf.

Lord, what do I have? What talents do I have? What giftings do I have? But you keep pulling from the loaf that you have and God has promised us, He’d send us an abundance of loaves of bread.